Jelani Byrd – Instructional Math Consultant

Jelani’s first introduction to Mathematics was like many others. As a child, Jelani was taught to memorize math facts with flash cards as his foundation to learning basic arithmetic. This left him with a sense of math anxiety because he had no understanding of what the symbols on his cards meant. He loved to learn and wanted to understand the material, but the way he was learning made him feel lost and hopeless. He asked himself, “Is math for me?” This all changed as Jelani started learning the Bitric System as a tween. A fun, play based learning curriculum built to counteract the exact issues he was facing with rote memorization methods. The techniques and methods he learned from Bitric went on to help him become an Honor roll student. Achieving straight A’s through both High School and college. Now his goal is to help others achieve the same math proficiency as he did and share the joy of learning with the world.